Michigan in the News

President Mary Sue Coleman co-authored an op-ed article that appeared in The Detroit News and on MLive.com about the importance of the University Research Corridor to Michigan's economy.

John P. Wilkin, associate university librarian for library information technology and MPublishing and executive director of HathiTrust, spoke with The Chronicle of Higher Education for an article about changes in scholarly publishing.

USA Today quoted Dr. Beth Tarini, assistant professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases, regarding her study into why Mary Ingalls slowly went blind, a story popularized in one of the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

The UM-Dearborn campus is home to many furry creatures, including squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, white-tailed deer and foxes. Coyotes also belong on that list, and although the canines have been less visible in the past, staff members at the Environmental Interpretive Center say the number of coyote findings has increased in recent months. Read more about coyotes at UM-Dearborn. (Photo courtesy of UM-Dearborn Environmental Interpretive Center)

Mott Children’s Hospital named to Parents magazine’s 10-best listParents magazine Monday announced its list of 10 Best Children's Hospitals, ranking C.S. Mott Children's Hospital eighth in the nation. Mott was the only Michigan hospital ranked in the top 10 list, which focused on areas including treatment success, groundbreaking research and family-friendly facilities.

Professor emeritus Michael Cohen dies at age 67Michael Cohen, professor emeritus of information and a founding faculty member at the School of Information who retired a little less than a year ago, died last weekend at age of 67 after a long fight with cancer.

The Michigan Difference

Real world politics
As mayor of Goudomp, Senegal, Abdoulaye Sadio contends with issues that are familiar to many elected officials: education, health, housing, energy, water and sanitation. But Sadio, who received his master's and doctoral degrees from the School of Public Health, also deals with problems that few mayors in the developed world have to confront, including high unemployment during Senegal's dry season and a 30-year rebellion that has stifled socioeconomic development in the region. He tells his story in the fall issue of the SPH magazine, Findings.